Quote:Google is expanding its advanced autofill features to Chrome on iOS and Android, with tight integration into Google Wallet for handling sensitive documents.

The update allows Chrome to automatically fill out web forms with information such as passport numbers, driver's license details, Known Traveler Numbers, vehicle identification numbers, license plates, and flight itineraries. The rollout begins today through a server-side update.

This mobile update brings Chrome's expanded autofill capabilities, which were previously available only on desktop, to iOS and Android browsers.

What’s New in Chrome Autofill and How Google Wallet Becomes the Master Directory

Chrome now allows users on mobile to securely remember and autofill more complex data types, including passport numbers and expiration dates, driver's license details, known traveler numbers for TSA PreCheck and Global Entry, vehicle identification numbers and license plate numbers, flight itineraries, and other multi-character strings often used in travel and logistics forms.

This information is stored in Google Wallet and retrieved by Chrome when filling out relevant forms. The integration works both ways:

• Chrome can automatically fill forms using data stored in Google Wallet.
  
• When users fill out a form for the first time, Chrome can suggest saving the details to Google Wallet for future use.
  

This integration helps avoid maintaining separate stores of sensitive documents in both the browser and the Wallet app.

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Quote:WhatsApp has introduced a new proactive security feature that warns users before they start conversations with unknown phone numbers.

This update, currently being rolled out to both Android and iOS users, adds a trust verification layer at the very beginning of interactions, before a chat window is even opened. This marks a significant shift in the platform’s approach to scam prevention.

WhatsApp Adds Security Warning

According to WABetaInfo, the feature displays a security prompt when a user attempts to start a chat with a phone number that is not recognized or has not been used before.

This warning screen provides contextual information, including the country where the phone number is registered, whether the number is in the user’s contact list, and any shared group memberships.

Users then have two options: either proceed with the conversation or cancel the action entirely. Importantly, the recipient is not notified of the user’s decision, preserving user privacy.

This enhancement builds on WhatsApp’s existing anti-scam measures, such as its device-linking protection system, which alerts users to suspicious attempts to link their accounts to unauthorized devices.

However, unlike previous safeguards that activate after malicious activity has begun, this new feature aims to disrupt social engineering attacks at the initial stage.

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Quote:Microsoft’s long-planned Secure Boot certificate rollover has reached a critical milestone, impacting more than just routine updates.

The Microsoft Corporation KEK CA 2011 expired on June 24, 2026, the Microsoft UEFI CA 2011 expires on June 27, 2026, and the Microsoft Windows Production PCA 2011 is scheduled to expire on October 19, 2026. This requires organizations to transition firmware trust from the 2011 certificate chain to the 2023 replacements.

This transition is important because Secure Boot is part of the pre-OS trust path, where UEFI firmware validates boot components before loading Windows or Linux. Therefore, certificate expiry becomes a firmware security issue rather than merely an endpoint patching task.

Windows Secure Boot Certificate Expiry Exposes PCs

At the core of the issue is Secure Boot’s layered trust hierarchy. UEFI firmware relies on the Platform Key to authorize the Key Enrollment Key (KEK), which is used to sign updates to the allowed signature database (DB) and the revocation database (DBX), as per reported by CSN.

During startup, the firmware checks whether bootloaders and EFI components are trusted in the DB and not blocked in the DBX before allowing execution. Microsoft has stated that devices that miss the 2023 certificate transition will still boot and run existing software.

However, they will lose access to future Windows Boot Manager protections, updates to Secure Boot DB and DBX, and new mitigations against boot-level threats.

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Quote:If you are a home user running Windows 10 on a PC, you may know that support for the operating system is coming to an official end. While Microsoft ended support back in October 2025 officially, it introduced an Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for home users for the first time.

Once joined, Windows 10 would get another year of security updates until October 2026. Now, with the deadline looming over the heads of millions, Microsoft announced an extension of support.

In short: Windows 10 machines that joined ESU will receive security updates until October 2027 now. That is valid for Home and Pro editions only, as Enterprise customers get other, mostly paid, options to extend support by up to three years.

If the Windows 10 PC receives security updates via ESU already, then it will continue to receive updates after October 2026.

Microsoft confirmed the extension on the official Windows blog. It updated the original article about Windows 10’s future with the information:
 

Quote:This post has been updated to reflect that the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for personal use devices is being provided for an additional year, with coverage now available through Oct. 12, 2027. This extension provides customers with more time to transition to a new Windows 11 PC while continuing to receive critical security updates.

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Quote:Hello!

We have completed the 2026 round of testing EDR-XDR solutions as part of our evaluation of telemetry quality, attack context, and host-to-host correlation.

In this edition, we did not focus on the effectiveness of threat detection, but primarily on what happens after an alert is generated - the quality of telemetry, event correlation, attack chain reconstruction, and practical operational value for SOC and Incident Response teams.

As part of the tests, we conducted multi-stage attack scenarios covering phishing, PowerShell, LOLBins, persistence, lateral movement, remote code execution, and data exfiltration.

Our goal was to verify whether the solutions under review provide analysts with sufficient data to understand the course of an incident, identify the source of the threat, and quickly take corrective action.

In summary, I can say that the differences between products increasingly lie not in attack detection itself, but in the completeness of telemetry, the quality of correlation, and the depth of analytical context.

Tested solutions:

1. Bitdefender - Bitdefender GravityZone XDR
   
2. CrowdStrike - CrowdStrike Falcon Insight XDR
   
3. Elastic - Elastic Defend XDR
   
4. Metras - Metras XDR
   
5. ThreatDown - ThreatDown EDR
   
6. WithSecure - WithSecure Elements EPP + EDR
   

Detailed reports, certifications, and the testing methodology are now available on websites:

• EDR-XDR Visibility & Correlation Assessment 2026 » AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation
  
• EDR-XDR Solutions Overview » AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation
  

Quote:AMD releases FSR SDK 2.3 with Ray Regeneration 1.2.0

FSR Ray Regeneration gets new denoising options.



AMD has released FSR SDK 2.3.0 through GPUOpen and GitHub. The new package updates several AMD FSR Redstone DLL-based machine learning technologies, but it does not introduce a new effect.

Ray Regeneration 1.2 

The main ray tracing update is AMD FSR Ray Regeneration 1.2.0. According to AMD, the new version adds optional ambient occlusion denoising and optional specular occlusion denoising. AMD also added checkerboard rendering support, new debug options and validation support.

This is not just a small DLL refresh for developers. AMD lists API-breaking changes for Ray Regeneration 1.2.0, including the removal of the fuse mode API, changes to logging, new matrix handling, signed linear depth changes and new signal API entries. Developers updating from Ray Regeneration 1.1 may need integration changes.

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Quote:DLSS Swapper gets SR, RR and FG v310.7 before NVIDIA App

NVIDIA has released DLSS SDK 310.7.0 and Streamline SDK 2.12.0. Both packages are now available through GitHub, but the changelog is short.



For DLSS SDK 310.7.0, NVIDIA only lists improved tracking of resources and frames in Nsight Graphics and Nsight Systems. The release also includes bug fixes and stability improvements. Streamline SDK 2.12.0 only lists bug fixes and stability improvements.

The update does not appear to be the expected Ray Reconstruction update. The changelog does not mention new DLSS presets or image quality changes. Some users are still waiting for the next Ray Reconstruction update, which was previously mentioned for August. Not to  mention Reflex 2, but NVIDIA seems to be ignoring it ever existed (they did not respond to our inquiry). 

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Quote:Imagine if a bad driver update or a bad update completely trashed your PC setup, but you could instantly roll the entire machine back to exactly how it was yesterday—local user files and all—in just a few minutes.

That scenario required use of third-party backup solutions until now. On June 23, 2026, Microsoft announced the general availability of its new, built-in Point-in-Time Restore feature for Windows 11 PCs (versions 24H2 and later).

According to the official release on the Microsoft Windows IT Pro Blog, this native recovery tool automatically captures full-system snapshots every 24 hours, giving Home, Pro, and Enterprise users a safety net to bypass hours of painful troubleshooting when something breaks the PC.

How Point-in-Time Restore works

Point-in-Time Restore acts as a comprehensive safety net for your operating system. Operating quietly in the background, the feature automatically captures full-system snapshots on a recurring schedule—defaulting to every 24 hours—and saves them directly to local storage.

Using it, you can roll back the PC to a previous state in minutes, according to Microsoft. That is excellent when a driver, Windows update or corrupted application affects the machine.

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Quote:Samsung confirms UFS 5.0 storage with over 40% better power efficiency

Mass production is planned for Q4



Samsung has announced its first UFS 5.0 storage solution for next-generation mobile devices. The company says the new package reaches up to 10.8 GB/s sequential read speed and up to 9.5 GB/s sequential write speed.

This puts Samsung’s UFS 5.0 at more than twice the performance of its UFS 4.1 solution. Samsung is linking the increase to on-device AI workloads, where phones and compact devices need faster access to local model data.

Samsung also claims more than 40% better power efficiency compared with its UFS 4.1 storage. The company says this comes from clock gating and multi-voltage technologies, which reduce the power needed to move the same amount of data.


Source: Samsung

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